Bias finger fourchetteless glove



July 28, 1936. c. H. JOHANSON BIAS FINGER FOURCHETTELESS GLOVE Filed May 22, 193

Patented July 28, 1936 STATES FFIC 2 Claims.

This invention is a hand glove and involves especially its structure and the method of making the glove, more particularly gloves which are free from fourchettes.

The glove of the preferred type, in this invention, is embodied in a one-piece body or blank in which the forefinger (index finger) form part lies in the longitudinal axis of the blank and the form parts going to produce the little finger of the glove lie at the extreme sides of the body blank; all finger parts springing from the main or wrist part of the blank.

It is an object to provide, in glove making, a. method .and blank or body in which the finger parts are so arranged that when the blank is folded on itself and the relative finger parts are sewed together they will .severally assume the proper length and will eliminate superfluous fullness of material across the knuckles.

More definitely, it is an object to provide a glove blank in which certain fingers are so arranged as'to the main axis of the blank that advantage may be taken of the inherent property, of the material from which they may be made, of stretching on certain lines of tension but not on others, and thereby to overcome undesired fullness of material over the knuckles in the type of gloves here considered; that is, gloves without fourchettes.

The invention consists in certain advancements in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, other objects and advantages as hereinafter developed, and whose construction, combination and details of means, and the method of production will be made manifest in the description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within the scope, principle and spirit of the invention as it is more directly claimed hereinbelow.

Practically all kinds of goods from which hand gloves are made are quite unstretchable on certain lines of tension and on other lines diagonal thereto are considerably stretchable, and according to this invention a glove die to produce a glove blank as set forth in the following is laid on the goods in such position that the main or longitudinal axis of the desired blank will lie parallel to the non-stretching threads of the goods; if this be of fabric.

The drawing is a plan of a glove blank cut from a given die for the production of a fourchet-- teless glove; the blank shown being of one-piece including all finger parts and the wrist.

The blank or glove forming body as shown includes a wide wrist part 2 with side edges 3-4 which are stitched together in completion of the glove (not shown) and includes a palm portion 5-6 about the extremity of which lie the several finger parts.

The finger parts include a double-width, medially arranged part I ending in tips 8-9; this part l-being disposed on the longitudinal axis A--A of the blank and along which the blank is l folded to lap the several matching portions and provide for the stitching thereof entirely around the side lines of the folded blank, except, of course, the transverse wrist line l0.

At opposite sides of the center finger part I, 1 which constitutes the index finger of the glove, lie somewhat longer or middle-finger parts I ll2 which are substantial duplicates and lie substantially parallel to the glove axis AA, and to the non-stretching line of the goods. 5

Next to the finger parts l|l2 lie the ringfinger parts Iii-I4, and next to these, and outermost of the blank, lie the little finger parts l5-- 6.

The little finger parts l5l6 have their bases well down on the sides of the palm portion of i .the blank, and with respect to their tips are much shorter than the fingers I and I l-l2. The ring-finger parts I3-l4 spring from the palm portion on lines or bases between the bases of the little finger parts and the middle finger partst In order to take full advantage of the stretch of the goods on the bias lines the little finger, parts and the ring finger parts of the blank. are arranged at decided angles symmetrically divergent from the sides of the palm portion of the 3 glove blank.

Thus the little finger and the ring finger parts, though shorter than the other fingers, will, when worked on the laying-off iron, stretch to the full length of the finger for which they are intended and at the same time any undesired fullness over the knuckles will be eliminated.

It is understood that the blanks may be cut from any desired goods such as knitted fabric or glove skin and in all cases the little finger and I the ring finger parts of the cutting'die will be so disposed that they will lie over the bias or stretchable portion of the goods, with the main axis of the die lying along the non-stretching lines of the material.

It'will be seen that the contiguous finger parts l3 and I5 (and I4 and I6) are separated by an inwardly inclining line to the roots or connections of their fingers with their basal or contiguous portions 56 of the blank. 'In the appended finger cover, the little and ring finger parts being disposed at the sides of the said hand parts of the blank and divergent upwardly and obliquely therefrom and from each other, and the middle finger parts lying close to and parallel with the forefinger part, the latter being parallel to the axis of the blank, and the little and ring finger parts being shorter than in blanks of common trade practice for the same size glove; the root line between the little and the ring fingers inclining inwardly to a point substantially vertically under the basal portion of the ring finger.

2. A glove blank as set forth in claim 1 and in which the little and ring finger parts lie on the bias of the goods of the blank.

CARL H. JOHANSON. 

